The
exhibition in Veldhoven is already a long time ago but until now I haven’t had
time to show my contribution on my weblog. The theme was ‘Old Masters”. A while
ago I dyed a piece of fabric, which in my opinion looked as a sky with clouds.
In combination with the theme of the exhibition it inspired me to go loose on a
ceiling with angels. In the collection of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum I found an etch
of Jacob de Wit (the lower one) and on the site Wikimedia Commons an etches of
Wenceslas Hollar. I enlarged the pictures and painted them on fabric. After
that I appliqued them on the sky fabric. In the old Amsterdam canal houses this
kind of panels where used in wooden or sculptured ceiling panels. So I made a
brown ‘wooden’ frame around it.

And yes, it's official, my little sewing room is stuffed with too much things. When I put something on the shelf on the left something else falls down on the right. I think I have to clean up a bit tomorrow.

And than,
all of a sudden, summer is over. Today officially the first day of the autumn. A good opportunity to give some attention to
my weblog. I am still busy creating all kinds of textile but everything I made
this summer is for shows and competitions, so I may not show it to you all.

I just
returned from the show in Sainte Marie in France. Good to make the trip because my quilt ‘
Imagine all the people’ was award winning, the Prix de France Patchwork. Nice!
It wasn’t the best of show award (yet) but certainly the price with the most
noise of all, thanks to my travel companions. The lovely group (Marloes,
Henriët, Marjo, Marjoleine, Marion, Marjon en Ria) took care of champaign to
celebrate the award. I enjoyed it very much.

The quilt is travelling for a year. Now I am looking forward
to the OEQC in Veldhoven. I have a quilt in competition there as well.

The preparations for the show in Karlsruhe are going steady.
Most of it is Janine’s part as going to such an event as stand holder means a lot of packing to do. My part was
taking care of our advertising material. Thanks to my brother I did it. From
Friday till Sunday we will try to sell as much of our books as possible.

JanineWetzels (webshop mijn-eigen.nl) and I are busy working on our new book. All you
can do with Drimarene en Procion fibre reactive dye will be in. Of course we
have to test and do all dyeing techniques. This is the result of breakdown
printing on silk. It’s flapping in the wind beautifully.

Last May I
visited New York for a few days (too short!). I made hundreds of photos. My
favourite position was on the middle of the street. Not always confortable. As
a fresh new tourist I made of course a whole series of standard pictures.
Including one of Times Square at night. I edited the photo and printed it on
cotton. I dyed several matching fabrics.